GSRD Foundation in Netherlands and Citi Foundation are providing scholarship support to poor meritorious students of Bangladesh through Grameen Shikkha management. GSRD Foundation is sponsoring 51 scholarships for poor meritorious high school students.

Citi Foundation is sponsoring another 35 scholarships for poor undergraduate female students in six different public universities in Bangladesh.

Scholarship Yearbook 2007 Published

The Scholarship Yearbook 2007 is just published. The yearbook contains messages from Grameen Shikkha Chairman Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus and Managing Director Ms. Nurjahan Begum; list of all scholarship programs and Sponsors under GS Scholarship Management Program as on December 2007, and list of sponsored students (current) till December 2007.

The Hunter Foundation of UK have Donated $500,000 to start 500 Scholorship

The Hunter Foundation of the UK has started 500 scholarships under GS management from January 2008. The scholarship program is named Hunter-PSN Grameen Scholarship. 318 scholarships are of Tk. 250 per month and 182 are of Tk. 500 per month.

Business Week names Professor Yunus as One of "The Greatest Enterpreneurs of All Time"

Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner, founded a banking system 30 years ago to lend small amounts of money to the rural poor in Bangladeshi villages. Most of the low-interest microloans go to women, who use them to start their own profit-making enterprises, mainly in agriculture, crafts, or services.